SILVERDALE — Without a port to call home, the Northwind has headed north for the winter.

The 130-foot-long historic motor yacht, a familiar sight in Sinclair Inlet, recently voyaged through the Port Washington Narrows and into Dyes Inlet. Christian Lint, its captain, has yet to find permanent moorage since it had to depart the Bremerton Marina earlier this year.

"There's no place for me to go," Lint said.

The Northwind departed from the breakwater at the Bremerton Marina earlier this year, after the Port of Bremerton commissioners voted to prohibit permanent moorage there. The commissioners voted in April to cap mooring to the breakwater without staff approval to 96 hours, arguing the area is meant as a waterfront gathering space for the public.

In the meantime, Lint's reading of state law is that he has to keep the vessel moving, anchoring only 30 days at a time in one spot. He started with the waters off Silverdale.

"I woke up this morning and there was this huge boat over there," Joyce Merkel, a longtime resident of Old Town Silverdale, said Monday. "I can't recall anything like that here."

Built in 1930, the Northwind's sailed the world and hosted dignitaries like Winston Churchill, Jackie Kennedy, and, once in a stop at Malta in 1951, Princess Elizabeth — before she became the queen of England, according to historical accounts on board the vessel. The boat was also a part of the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II.

In spring 2016, the vessel began listing and appeared to be taking on water and was repaired in Ballard to restore its seaworthiness. Earlier this year, Lint had further renovations — including a new paint job — completed in Port Townsend on behalf of its owner, Tom Jones of the Halo Group.

Lint is still fuming at the Port of Bremerton's decision to remove the two vessels he caretakes: the Northwind and the 1893-built El Primo. The El Primo is at a Port Orchard marina. He said he's likely to sail the Northwind to California's bay area in the spring.

"I'd like to stay in the Northwest," he said. "But it looks like I'm going back to San Francisco."